07-03-2012, 03:38 PM
Hi Markus,
I could ship from France as I live 5min away from the border and I have several friends who live in France, so that wouldn't be a problem for you to ship it back.
However, what lenses would you be interested in, the 80-200?
If it's later this year, I may not have it anymore as I also have a 70-200 VRI which I use in place of the 80-200. I'll probably sell the 80-200 as I don't find it as good as the 70-200 optically.
[quote name='mst' timestamp='1340699734' post='19124']
First of all, thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it. The 24-85 and 28-105 are already on my list (as is the AF-S 80-200).
So, from your list we're down to the AF-D 80-200, which I've been actually looking for for a while.
However, there are two problems: I'm still facing quite some work in my main job, which currently makes it close to impossible to significantly reduce the list of mostly-done-but-unwritten reviews (a few are coming though this week, you can check our smugmug site to get an impression of what's in the pipeline). So I don't think I'd find time for this one until a lot later this year, I'm afraid.
The second issue is that shipping something from Switzerland to Germany and back involves custom duties on both sides. So, unless you can ship the lens from somewhere the European Union, loaning it to us looks a little unattractive from an economical point of view.
-- Markus
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I could ship from France as I live 5min away from the border and I have several friends who live in France, so that wouldn't be a problem for you to ship it back.
However, what lenses would you be interested in, the 80-200?
If it's later this year, I may not have it anymore as I also have a 70-200 VRI which I use in place of the 80-200. I'll probably sell the 80-200 as I don't find it as good as the 70-200 optically.
[quote name='mst' timestamp='1340699734' post='19124']
First of all, thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it. The 24-85 and 28-105 are already on my list (as is the AF-S 80-200).
So, from your list we're down to the AF-D 80-200, which I've been actually looking for for a while.
However, there are two problems: I'm still facing quite some work in my main job, which currently makes it close to impossible to significantly reduce the list of mostly-done-but-unwritten reviews (a few are coming though this week, you can check our smugmug site to get an impression of what's in the pipeline). So I don't think I'd find time for this one until a lot later this year, I'm afraid.
The second issue is that shipping something from Switzerland to Germany and back involves custom duties on both sides. So, unless you can ship the lens from somewhere the European Union, loaning it to us looks a little unattractive from an economical point of view.
-- Markus
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